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Atlantis probe can’t be ‘a fishing expedition’
from 05112023 BUSINESS
by tribune242
By NEIL HARTNELL Tribune Business Editor nhartnell@tribunemedia.net
A TRADE union leader yesterday warned the Government that it must have “a legitimate basis” for its Atlantis labour probe and said: “It cannot be a fishing expedition.”
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Obie Ferguson KC, also a labour attorney, spoke out after the Paradise Island mega resort asserted it had “never pressured” any of its 6,000plus staff to publicly or directly oppose Royal Caribbean’s proposed nearby project. Atlantis responded after it was revealed that the Department of Labour has initiated an investigation into whether its workers feel they are being “intimidated” into opposing the cruise line’s plans and fear for their jobs if they do not.
However, Keith Bell, minister of labour and Immigration, yesterday told media outside the House of Assembly that the Department had acted after receiving “a number of complaints” from Atlantis workers that they felt pressured, intimidated and under “undue influence”
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